Gallery 25 Artist Bios

Lucille Chamberlin

106 West 4100 North
Pleasant View, Utah 84414

Lucile studied art at Weber State College under Farrell Collette and Richard Van Wagoner. She has attended workshops with Millard Sheets, Fredrick Wong, Katherine Chang Liu and Nita Engle.

Artist and teacher, Lucile works out of her home. She has enjoyed art most of her life, working in oils and the past 15 years mainly watercolors. She is married to James O. Chamberlin (architect in Ogden Utah) and they have raised five daughters and have 22 grandchildren.

Lucile is a two-star member of the Utah Watercolor Society. Her painting “Red Scissors” won Jurors Choice of Merit in the Utah Watercolor 13th Annual Juried Exhibit. “Red Apples” won an Award of Excellence in the Utah Watercolor Society member show.

She is a member and past president of the Palette Club of Ogden. Besides exhibiting with the Palette Club, she has had the opportunity to exhibit in the following Utah galleries: Gallery Etc. in Salt lake City, Eccles Community Art Center, Allied Varied Arts Gallery in Logan, Historical Episcopal Church Gallery Walk, Woman Artists of Utah, and is currently a member of Gallery 25 in Ogden.

Keith Dabb

924 N. Harrisville Road
Harrisville, Utah 84404

“Keith, you go to the back of the room, the rest of you students take out your math books and turn to page 106,” was what I often heard in my sixth grade class. I was sent to the back of the room to work on art projects for the teacher. The rest of the class did the math. This was great for a sixth grader who loved to draw. However, the next year in seventh grade math, I found out that I had missed many basics and didn’t understand math too well.

I finally made it through high school and even learned some math. My favorite subject remained art. From high school, I went right on to college, taking generals and always an art class. Following my first quarter of college, I traveled to South Dakota where I lived and worked with the Sioux Indians. I first worked on the Standing Rock Reservation, and then Crow Creek Reservation. I worked with people with names like Loves War, Brown Otter, Chief White Buffalo Man, and Grandpa Straight Arrow who taught me a lot about carving and most of the Sioux I know today.

After about 12 months, I was transferred to Montana to work with the Crow Indians. The time I spent among the Indians was a great learning experience. I returned to college soon after and married the girl down the street, Gaylene Larsen. It was then time to decide what I was going to do when I grew up. I thought, “I’m not good in math, I still love art, and my dad is a teacher,” so I came up with art education.

I graduated from Weber State University and signed a contract to teach art in a junior high school. Shortly after, I received a letter from my draft board. I decided to join the Navy instead of going into the Army. The Navy trained me as a ship fitter, doing welding pipe fitting, plumbing and also firefighting. The Navy showed me many parts of the world – mostly Vietnam. I served aboard a destroyer USS Somers DDG-34, and a submarine tender USS Dixon AS-37.

I returned home and taught first at South Ogden Junior High, then Weber High School and Fremont High School. All the time I worked on my art skills right along with my students. My wife and I raised six wonderful children, 3 boys and 3 girls who have given us 13 grandchildren. After 30 years in education, I retired to do what I wanted to do from the time I was in the sixth grade – art work.

Lauri Eskelson

5065 West 2150 North
Ogden, Utah 84404

I was raised with a love of art and influenced greatly by my father who was a university art professor and an avid outdoorsman. At a very early age, I became awestruck by the beauties of nature and developed a strong love for the land. I completed an art degree with an emphasis in painting and currently paint in oils and pastels.

Landscape is still the subject that touches my soul. I am most interested in capturing the mood of a place, striving for a subtle feel for each particular landscape. I have recently been doing more plein air painting. I’m inspired by open space and love the energy that comes from painting directly from the land.

In the years since completing my degree, I’ve had the opportunity to take several workshops and classes with some outstanding Utah artists: Shanna Kunz, Doug Braithewaite, David Koch, and John Hughes. I currently exhibit my work at Gallery 25 in Ogden, Skywolf’s Gallery in Teton Village in Wyoming, and Apple Hollow Gallery in Glendale Utah. I am a member of the Palette Club of Ogden.

Carol Fielding

5088 South 2575 West
Roy, Utah 84067

I was taught to love art at my father’s knee. I don’t remember a time in my life that I wasn’t moved by color and all of God’s creations. An artist has a need to capture a fleeting moment or mood and recreate it so that hopefully others can see what you saw and love it.

I was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where my father, Darwin E. Meacham, was Director of the Rock Springs Art Center. I was encouraged to come to the gallery and draw. Dad taught me a lot about the old masters and helped me appreciate art in all forms. I knew I was an artist, but most of my life my need for personal expression was directed toward music and poetry. Dad was the painter and I guess I just didn’t want to tread on his hallowed ground. After my father’s death in 1989, I turned to painting.

I studied oil painting under George Allen and watercolors under Terry Combe Johnson at the Salt lake Community College. I have taken classes in pastels from Marge Call and Kay Affleck. I have exhibited in many art shows and received many accolades from highly respected artist. I am a member of the Palette Club of Ogden.

I love to paint in all media and find beauty in everything I see, resulting in very diverse art. I have been a business woman, civic leader, volunteer and mother of five wonderful children.

I am proud to be a charter member of Gallery 25 in Ogden, Utah.

Jeff Hepworth

4675 West 4100 South
West Haven, Utah

Jeff is a landscape artist from Northern Utah. His paintings are part of many private and public collections throughout the United States, Canada and England. He studied art at Weber State University, graduating in 1977. He then taught school for 30 years, where he was the recipient of numerous awards including the Utah Alliance for Arts Education Award in 1988. He was also a finalist for Utah Art Teacher of the Year in 1989.

His award-winning pieces have also been featured in many prestigious shows and festivals throughout the West. Galleries in Utah, Alaska, and Arizona currently represent Jeff’s work. He is also a member of the Palette Club of Ogden.

His most recent awards and shows are:

Liz Pierce

4605 WEDGEWOOD DRIVE
ROY, UTAH 84067
801-732-9355

Liz has always lived in the west – Idaho, Arizona and Utah for past 30-plus years. “I love our beautiful mountains, desert rocks and the surprises that come with the season changes. I thank God for allowing me to enjoy them.“ She lives in Roy with her husband Chuck and their dog Sammie. Between them they have six children and nine grandchildren.

Like many artists, her love for art began as a child, drawing and coloring to entertain her two younger sisters. She has always loved art, color and design. She attended both Arizona State University and Weber State University, majoring in business, but always including art and design classes. She studied under Donna Osmond Kearney (1995-2000), and has taken many workshops from artists such as Frank Francese, Frank Webb, Gerry Fenter, Betsy Dillard Stroud, Katie Brandt, and several others.

Liz has exhibited in several northern Utah venues and received several awards over the years. She is a member of the Palette Club of Ogden and the Utah Watercolor Society.

She is primarily a watermedia artist working in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media. Her work is very diverse. Besides painting very traditional subjects, she loves creating collages and abstracts, using bright colors and focusing on texture, design and shape.

Liz says “art is my therapy – it makes me happy and I hope to paint, create and share those creations until the end of my days.”

Mac Stevenson

North Ogden, Utah

Mac Stevenson is a Utah artist who resides in North Ogden with his wife Ann. They have six grown children. Mac graduated from Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah, where he received an Art Scholarship to attend Weber State University, earning his Bachelors Degree in Art Education in 1968.

After teaching art for one year, he attended BYU where he was awarded his Masters of Fine arts Degree in painting, drawing and sculpturing. He then began his teaching career in the Ogden City School District, teaching at Mount Ogden Junior High, Ogden High and then 26 years at Ben Lomond High School. At Ben Lomond, Mac was chosen by Utah State University as the Utah High School Art Teacher of the Year in 1994. During his last 12 years at Ben Lomond High, Mac instructed the Advanced Placement Art. During those years, Ben Lomond’s APA scores had the highest pass ratio in the school district at 86 percent.

After seven years in university and 29 years teaching art, Mac now directs his energy toward teaching himself. As a practicing artist, his works range from traditional to abstract. He works in watercolor, oil, gouache, pastel and mixed media. He finds pleasure in being able to enter his studio and know that he has the freedom to create without having thirty plus students looking over his shoulder. At the same time, he draws energy from the memory of his former students.

Mac has won many local and state awards with his watercolors, oils and sculptures. He has had one-man shows at BYU, WSU, Salt lake Community College, Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden Utah, Myra Powell Art Gallery in Ogden Utah, Layton Utah Heritage Museum, Bountiful-Davis Art Center, and Gallery At the Station in Ogden Utah. He is a charter member of Gallery 25 in Ogden and a member of the Palette Club of Ogden.

Mac is now having the time of his life as a practicing artist!

Kevin Wasden

1571 South 2000 West
Syracuse, Utah 84075

Kevin’s talents and artistic endeavors have been widely divergent but always fueled by a love for art and creativity. Since 1995, he has worked professionally as an illustrator, costume designer, and art instructor. He works in several mediums, both traditional and digital, and has produced illustrations, sculptures, and designs for many distinguished clients, including Avon Camelot, Tor Books, ESPN, Walt Disney, Deseret Book, the Chicago Bulls, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is also the founder of Sketchbooks for Kids, a non-profit organization seeking to teach and promote creativity through the giving of sketchbooks and other drawing materials to children (http://www.up-art.org/).

In spite of an often hectic career, Kevin still finds time to contemplate moments of serenity through his gallery artwork. In his depictions of people and nature, he seeks to capture an instant of peace and tranquility that help renew his strength and his perspective.

Lorin Wilde

172 West 100 South
Kaysville, UT 84037

Lorin is a “student of all mediums.” Hungry for the knowledge and pleasure that comes from working with various media, He paints with oil, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic; he uses dry media including pastels, charcoal colored pencil and scratch board. He also sculpts with clay and carves wood, builds molds, and produces marble and bronze art and enjoys printmaking using both woodcut and etching techniques.

Lorin was born and raised in Northern Utah, currently residing in Kaysville with his wife Kay. He says “I can’t remember at what age I became aware of the beauty about me or when I first realized the joy of documenting the creations around me on paper. People, animals, nature, most anything as far back as I can remember captured my interest and drove me to pick up a pencil to sketch. As a very young boy I thought I knew the secrets of how to duplicate shapes onto paper. Anyone could do what I could do if they could only discover these secrets. To some degree this is still my belief. All people have some artistic ability. This desire that some of us are driven by is a blessing and sometimes a curse. It makes us different – it makes us artists. There are many passions that are just as noble, just as important, maybe more necessary, and almost always more profitable. But, I cannot think of anything, no matter how prestigious or necessary to life it may be, that could drive me or totally possess me like my love and passion for art.”

Lorin is a charter member of Gallery 25 as well as a member of the Bountiful Davis Art Center, Eccles Community Art Center, and the Palette Club of Ogden. He also displays and sells his work out of his own gallery in Kaysville, Utah. He has displayed in various shows and competitions throughout Northern Utah.

He attended Weber State University in Ogden, Utah; Phoenix College in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Arizona State University and earned both a fine art and an engineering degree. He has worked as an artist and design engineer for over 40 years. .

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Doug Wride

640 West 3750 North
Pleasant View, Utah 84414

Doug Wride is a Northern Utah watercolorist residing in Pleasant View with his wife and three children. Doug was born in Hailey, Idaho and has spent most of his life living in the Rocky Mountains. Doug has a great love of the outdoors. He spent much of his time as a child exploring the back roads of the mountains with his family.

Doug discovered watercolor when he was a junior in high school, taking an art class thinking it would be an easy credit. He has loved it ever since. Upon graduating from Weber High school in 1979 Doug attended BYU on an art scholarship. He graduated in 1985 with a BS in finance. He then pursued a career as a stockbroker for 18 years.

Doug has now returned to his first love of watercolor. He truly enjoys expressing his feelings about the beauty of God’s creations and rural America. His work can be found in the collections of many people.

Doug has studied under nationally and internationally known artist such as Joe Christensen, Robert Marshall, Carl Purcell, and Linda Kemp.

Doug is currently a member of Gallery 25 and the Palette Club of Ogden.

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